Ingredients
8 oz fresh pasta shells -- or
6 oz dry pasta shells
1 1/4 lb fresh spinach
1 lb chicken breast, boned,
1 skinned -- grilled, cut1
4 medium cloves garlic-chopped fine
1 tsp olive oil -- or vegetable spray
1 cup chicken broth
1/2 tsp nutmeg or mace
1 salt and pepper
1/2 cup parmesan -- grated
Directions
Cook the spinach in the broth until tender. Drain and reserve broth.
Mash out excess liquid. Cook pasta. Preheat a saute pan or heavy
skillet over medium heat, add the oil or vegetable spray and saute
the garlic, stirring constantly, until it is white. Don't allow it to
brown. Add the spinach and nutmeg or mace, salt and pepper. Add the
chicken pieces to the spinach, stir and turn and add a small amount
of the reserved cooking broth. Stir and turn the spinach until it is
hot, adding broth as necessary. Remove pasta and immediately drain.
Add the shells into the spinach mixture and blend well. Serve
immediately with Parmesan. Source: The Olive Garden.
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Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Chicken; Fruit; Healthy; Italian; Pasta
The History of Recipes
Written cooking instructions as an idea can be traced back into the far past, in truth as far back as pharonic Egypt, and maybe further still. Having said that, sadly, these early recipes were just primitive pictorial instructions for preparing meals.
Interestingly, the oldest recipe discovered, according to food historians are a few tablets in Sumerian which show the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made anyone who tried it feel `wonderful`. Later on, in Roman times 25BC a man called Apicius assembled a collection of scripts detailing recipes prepared by wealthy Romans. In his scrolls, he recounts how the meals of wealthy Romans were divided into starters, main meal and dessert, known in latin as `Gustatio, Primae Mensae and Secundae Mensae`. He also describes how the early Romans made use of many aromatic flavours, including a few that are still present in modern kitchens such as thyme, fennel and asafoetida. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years there are a couple of cookery books published in the 14th Century : a cookery book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another titled `Curye on Inglish`. Despite their titles, they are unconnected to the indian food that is served today, but rather accounts of the types of meals on the tables of the rich people of that time. In the fifteenth century, the Crusaders brought back a variety of foods and spices from the holy land, such as basil and rosemary. The introduction of these new culinary ideas was responsible for an eruption in recipe publications, the majority of which are now in private cookery archives. By the arrival of the 1900s, recipe books are highly popular as a result of better eduction, people having more free time and having more money to spend. |
We hope you enjoy this Olive Garden Heart Healthy Chicken_Pasta recipe.
